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1326
Y. F. Niemann and G. Gutiérrez y Muhs, "Presume...
This book provides practical, specific, and insightful guidance to fight back, prevail, and thrive in challenging work environments...
78 min
1327
Sally Nuamah, "How Girls Achieve" (Harvard UP, ...
Nuamah makes the case for “feminist schools” that orient girls toward a lifetime of achievement...
67 min
1328
Yuhang Li, "Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion...
How did Buddhist women access religious experience and transcendence in a Confucian patriarchal system in imperial China?
56 min
1329
Alyson McGregor, "Sex Matters: How Male-Centric...
The facts surrounding how male-centric medicine impacts women's health every day are chilling...
54 min
1330
Jennifer L. Holland, "Tiny You: A Western Histo...
Holland tells the story of one of the most successful political movements of the twentieth century in the United States: the grassroots campaign against legalized abortion...
59 min
1331
Pernilla Myrne, "Female Sexuality in the Early ...
Contrary to popular and even scholarly expectations, medieval erotic literature emphasized female sexual satisfaction...
50 min
1332
J-B. Tchouta Mougoué, "Gender, Separatist Polit...
Tchouta Mougoue illuminates how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in the first decade of independence in Cameroon...
64 min
1333
Jean Halley, "Horse Crazy: Girls and the Lives ...
Part memoir, part heavy-hitting theoretical exploration, this delightfully readable book explores the relationship between horses and humans...
49 min
1334
M. A. Weitekamp and M. Delaney, "Smithsonian Am...
"Smithsonian American Women" is an inspiring and surprising celebration of U.S. women's history told through Smithsonian artifacts...
76 min
1335
Lucy Delap, "Feminisms: A Global History" (U Ch...
Delap takes a thematic approach to the topic of global feminist history to provide a unified vision that maintains appropriate nuance...
49 min
1336
Tsedale Melaku, "You Don’t Look Like a Lawyer: ...
What kind of discrimination do Black women face in the legal profession?
49 min
1337
Anya Jabour, "Sophonisba Breckinridge: Champion...
Jabour's rediscovers this groundbreaking American figure...
63 min
1338
Natalie Kimball, "An Open Secret: The History o...
Kimball argues that, despite stigma and continued legal prohibitions, practices and attitudes surrounding abortion have changed in urban Bolivia since the 1950s..
68 min
1339
Mariann Hardey, "The Culture of Women in Tech: ...
What is the culture of the tech industry?
40 min
1340
B. L. Johnson and M. M. Quinlan, "You’re Doing ...
Johnson and Quinlan investigates the storied history of mothering advice in the media...
79 min
1341
Teresa Bergman, "The Commemoration of Women in ...
Bergman examines the public memorialization of women in the US over the past century, with a particular focus on the late twentieth century and early twenty first...
64 min
1342
R. Farrugia and K. D. Hay, "Women Rapping Revol...
The authors draw on seven years of fieldwork to illuminate the important role that women have played in mobilizing a grassroots response to political and social pressures at the heart of Detroit’s ongoing renewal and development project....
48 min
1343
Nora Haenn, "Marriage after Migration: An Ethno...
Haenn tells the stories of five women in rural Mexico, each navigating the tricky terrain that is men’s international migration...
50 min
1344
Kabria Baumgartner, "In Pursuit of Knowledge: B...
Baumgartner offers an intellectual and cultural history of the educational activism of African American women and girls in the long nineteenth century...
39 min
1345
Barbara J. Risman, "Where the Millennials Will ...
Risman uses her gender structure theory to tackle the question about whether today’s young people, Millennials, are pushing forward the gender revolution or backing away from it...
56 min
1346
Mona L. Siegel, "Peace on Our Terms: The Global...
Siegel explores the previously neglected history of a diverse group of women from around the world who fought for women’s rights as male politicians forged a new world order...
59 min
1347
Nandini Patwardhan, "Radical Spirits: India’s F...
In 1883, a young woman named Anandi Joshi set out from her native India to the United States to study medicine..,
63 min
1348
Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir, "Valkyrie: The W...
"Valkyrie” is skillfully arranged around the skeleton of the life cycle of a woman—from birth through childhood, adolescence, marriage, and old age.
56 min
1349
Shauna L. Shames et al., "Good Reason to Run: W...
This book provides a wealth of information and analysis of the reasons why women (and men) choose to run for public office and what that path looks like in terms of training, support, obstacles, and advantages...
53 min
1350
A. D. Crosby and M. B. Lykes, "In Beyond Repair...
The authors draw on eight years of feminist participatory action research conducted with fifty-four Q’eqchi’, Kaqchikel, Chuj, and Mam women to explore Mayan women’s agency in their search for truth, justice, and reparation...
70 min